Years ago, Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin famously asked the (rather dry) question: "What was Aragorn's tax policy?" It's an amusing, if slightly easy shot at the origins of modern fantasy that helps us concretise his own recognised approach to the genre: postmodernist, ethically-grey, deconstructionist stories, rooted in emotional realism, historical legitimacy and analogy.
Meanwhile, Final Fantasy 16 has a scene where a demon and a phoenix throw increasingly big lasers at a foppish dragon in outer space while shouting encouraging lines about togetherness at each other. I think this is something that we're going to have to talk about.
